RIP Rudy Giuliani

Ok, duh. Probably an Americanization. If I saw McIsaac/MacIsaac I wouldn't have batted an eye.

I never came across any MacIsaacs in Scotland but I've met a few in Canada.

Like Ashley McIsaac. They must have all got shipped out to Canada together.

'Be fruitful and multiply.'

Similarly, the most common French-Canadian last names tend to be quite rare in France.

lol at them having to be like "if you could see these hunter biden emails, oh my goodness, you would not believe this stuff" while everybody is laughing at borat busting in going wawaweewa on rudy playing with himself

— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) October 22, 2020

Maybe he was reaching into his pants so he could pull out the emails and show them to her

the emails? they don’t call it a laptop for nothing

https://i.imgur.com/8HHpGaU.jpeg

wasn't there a thing about the New World being a dumping ground for Sepahardic jews while columbus and the Spanish king tried to bring around their milllenial agenda to bring around the kingdom of heaven.
So does a MacIsaac fit into that conspiracy or are they 200 years late? Scotland being declared free of jews to bring around its Ku Klux Klan roots scenario?
Or did i just invent a racist conspiracy

i think he is just a guy who owns a laptop store, maaaaaan

I don't believe the McIsaacs are some long lost clan of Judeo-Gaels, no. More likely just some Highlanders driven off their lands and forced to go to Canada (you decide what's worse).

there can only be one

this thread has taken some weird turns

aybe he was reaching into his pants so he could pull out the emails and show them to her

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 22 October 2020 03:35 (twelve hours ago) link

the emails? they don’t call it a laptop for nothing

― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Thursday, 22 October 2020 13:15 (two hours ago) link

You know he's the type of old dude who has people print out emails for him

I know I should haven written it as “lap-top” to get my wonderful joke across

The interview is out there, and though he is a giant creep, it's pretty obvious that he was simply tucking the shirt back in. I'm not sure why people go out of their way to make up things about people that are gross enough for legitimate reasons already.

Because fuck those people, that's why.

I mean, I'll refrain from engaging personally, but I don't get hung up on people who live in a world of venomous fiction getting a taste of their own medicine.

How many fake-ass scandals has Rudy tried to whip up or participated in for the sake of smearing others? Eat my fuc, Rudy.

Because fuck those people, that's why

Oh right, I thought this was referring to Sacha Baron Cohen, in which case I was going to agree with you.

Yeah very hard for me to give a shit about Giuliani being unfairly tarnished when his job is basically to unfairly tarnish people with much greater consequence

Always thought the obvious next step for sbc’s career after borat would have been to just do a straight up blackface routine and see if liberals still claimed it as amazing satire as long as he remembered to sometimes cut away to some trailer park rando politely humouring him

yes definitely more important to show our disdain for a comedian than for the president's hit-man

Neither is important

He's not my president.

I'll just say that SBC and Rudy deserve one another. Perhaps they will sign up their lawyers to engage in a cage death match, fueled by shovelfuls of their money, and Rudy will die long before the suit is decided. That would be a good outcome.

rudy's running an active disinformation campaign to smear a presidential candidate. he may suck at it, but it is important

SBC making fun of racism via an antisemetic character is not analogous to SBC making fun of racism via blackface. It is akin to Spike Lee, Damon Wayans, and Tommy Davison making fun of racism via blackface.

I was more referring to the fact that borat is a racist caricature to begin with, not that the caricature happens to be antisemitic

Eastern Europeans are a race now?

Not sure Kazakhstan counts as Eastern Europe tbf.

in that its in Central Asia? and Kazakhs are a turkic people originating in asia?

Kazakhstan is not in Eastern Europe, not that SBC cares, they're all just interchangeable funny foreigners to him.

Pretty much. Then again, part of the point with Borat is that he’s ultimately a composite of Western prejudices about the ex-USSR.

The 'Kazakh' scenes are shot in Romania I think!

Indeed, in a Roma village, to boot.

I think he's more a composite of SBC's prejudices about the ex-USSR.

Ehhh, I don’t know about that.

The TV Borat character was probably a collection of "lol foreigners" micro-tropes that picked his country for the amusing K and Z sounds; the new film uses its fictional version of Kazakhstan as a way to reflect the narrow worldview of Trumpist America.

I guess I'm a little sensitive about all the lies and the gullibility, and by default I want to believe that "they" are always the liars and the gullible and I'm disappointed when that's not the case. I just can't be bothered to ever get invested if almost everything is just some degree of partial truths and fiction but either way you're meant to gobble it up completely if it validates your "side" or puts the other in a bad light. It's exhausting to me.

many xps

Eh, it's exercise for yr critical thinking skills. One of the few 'both sides!'-isms I'll indulge is that people on both sides can definitely be overly-credulous and also engage in bad faith, baseless arguments. It can be exhausting but it also isn't safe in general to assume that people on your side are going to be wholly beholden to the facts.

Rudy’s biographer/lickspittle (and, briefly, a bandmate of mine in the early ‘90s):

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/23/nyregion/ken-kurson-arrest-cyberstalking.html

Yeah, I think I knew that dude from my college days.

Mr. Kurson was also a longtime associate of Rudolph W. Giuliani, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, and helped manage his short-lived 2008 presidential campaign. He now runs a media company and works in the cryptocurrency industry.

This sounds like the post-credits update about the villain in a college geeks v. jocks comedy (a la Animal House).

pic.twitter.com/8TgCl39vwT

— Poorly Aged Things (@PoorlyAgedStuff) October 24, 2020

oh my god I missed this pic.twitter.com/OGFzvC80Fy

— Tim Hogan (@timjhogan) November 19, 2020

He'd be better off dead imo

undead though inne?
or is he just channelling Max Schreck

blooming daywalker, used to be quite prestigious i thought.

it's hard to comprehend the abject self-abasement he's engaged in this year, just staggering to see a human being do this to themselves

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